Israeli military
8 Oct
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at the city of Haifa in northern Israel on Tuesday. READ ALSO:Hezbollah confirms leader Nasrallah’s death The Iran-backed group said it had launched a "large rocket salvo" at Haifa and its northern suburbs after the Israeli military said "85 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon…
7 Sep
The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation into her death on Saturday, accusing the Israeli military of killing her "violently". READ ALSO:CUFI chief Acka backs Isreal, urges Hamas to release of hostages Aysenur Ezgi Eygi,…
27 Aug
The Israeli military said its forces rescued an Israeli hostage in southern Gaza on Tuesday after a "complex operation". Kaid Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli Bedouin, was abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the military said in a statement. "Kaid AlKadi was rescued... in a complex operation in the southern…
3 Jun
The Israeli military said Monday it had found the body of an Israeli paramedic who until now was believed to have been held hostage in Gaza
1 Jun
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a series of attacks on Israeli military positions Saturday after state media reported Israel had stepped up its own strikes the night before.
25 May
Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, on Saturday, despite an order from the UN's top court for it to "immediately halt"
23 May
Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza Thursday, while also expressing readiness to resume stalled talks on a truce and hostage release deal with Hamas to pause the war raging since October 7. The Gaza Strip's civil defence agency said two pre-dawn air strikes had killed 26 people, including 15 children, in Gaza City. Agency…
19 May
A Gaza hospital said Sunday that an Israeli air strike targeting a house at a refugee camp in the centre of the Palestinian territory killed
18 May
The Israeli military said on Saturday it killed a senior Palestinian militant during an air strike on an "operations centre" in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
5 May
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his Cabinet has unanimously voted to close broadcaster Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel.
11 Feb
Benjamin Netanyahu says in an interview airing Sunday that the Israeli military will provide "safe passage for the civilian population" ahead of an expected assault on the overcrowded southern Gaza city of Rafah, rejecting fears of a "catastrophe."
20 Dec 2023
On October 7, 2023, Hamas, the Palestinian militant organisation, killed approximately 1400 Israelis and held an estimated 240 hostages,110 of whom were released pursuant to a short-lived truce and Qatar’s intermediation, with wide-ranging accounts of cruelty and torture.
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